Word: tab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THREE years ago the Cambridge City Council used to meet in the afternoon and then adjourn to Igo's restaurant for cocktails and a leisurely dinner of lobster or steak. The city picked up the tab, of course. But it is unlikely now that the nine councillors could refrain from making political accusations over such dinners. The Council meets now in the evening and the sessions are long. Driveway permits and requests to put up signs on stores no longer have priority. Groups protesting rent control, police brutality, the lack of low-rent housing, and the recent tendency...
...Government would pick up the entire $1.4 billion annual tab for the Part B supplement to Medicare, which now covers doctor bills and outpatient services for nearly 20 million of the program's participants. As a result, the elderly who now pay $5.30 a month for the supplemental coverage would receive what amounts to an average 5% increase in Social Security benefits...
...originally conceived the Model Cities bureau would have federal funds through the Department of Housing and Urban Development for five years. After that, there would be no more of active work in Cambridge has authored a notably the city government-would find it desirable to pick up the tab...
When Calley travels, Delta Air Lines in Columbus, Ga., wires ahead to ensure him VIP treatment; recently Delta gave him a first-class seat though he held a coach ticket. When he stops at a bar, Calley invariably finds his drink tab (bourbon and Seven-Up) collected by an admirer. While in Washington, where he was undergoing psychiatric tests last week, he had $10 thrust at him by a stranger. In Columbus, Calley and his friends are always guests of the house at the Chickasaw Supper Club. A local wine shop gives him a discount. The president of the Fourth...
...Reynolds will pick up the tab for an $80,000 bowling tournament, named, appropriately enough, the Winston-Salem Classic. Reynolds will also put up $100,000 in awards for the top drivers on the Grand National Racing Tour and sponsor a Winston 500 stock-car race in Alabama. Philip Morris is bankrolling a series of 13 U.S. Auto Club races, many of which will be on ABC's Wide World of Sports. The company also will provide $100,000 in prizes for a women's tennis tournament, the "Virginia Slims Women's Invitational." In the sliest move...